Cleaner Wrasses

[LIttle Reef Keeper]

Are all cleaner wrasses as hard to care for as the blue streak? On this site they list 5 different species.
https://www.qualitymarine.com/Products/Fish/Wild/Wrasses/Labroides

Says they're all difficult, but doesn't explain why. Do all these species tend to wither away in home aquaria?


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[AdInfinitum]

IME the common Blue Streak are relatively easy to keep provided that you feed frozen preferably a couple of times a day. I have had several over the years, all have lived for a number of years with jumping being the most common cause of eventual death. The other species of cleaners are another story, they will virtually never accept aquarium foods and cannot get enough food cleaning the tiny populations of parasite free fish we have in our tanks.

Incidentally the parasites they eat are NOT microscopic things like Ich. They eat worms and parasitic copepods, sea lice etc... things we seldom see in our tanks. As well they consume scabs and damaged skin and scales. Lots to eat on huge aggressive groupers on the reef...not so much in our tanks.

 

[heath]

I have a blue streak and he is doing great... he freaks out my mono tho but, its funny to watch the other fish sit there to be cleaned...